Download or read book The Showbiz Master Plan written by J. C. Sum and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book More Shows that Pay More! "The Showbiz Master Plan" is a live entertainer's blueprint to creating a money-generating brand, making a consistent 6-figure income and setting up for retirement.The goal of any entertainer is to bring joy to people but most will agree that making money is also important. While the notion of a struggling artist is a common perception of the realities of show business, it does not have to be the case.The truth is; while there many entertainers who barely make ends meet each month, there are also many entertainers around the world who make a decent living from their art or craft. In fact, there are also many entertainers around the world who are very successful and financially comfortable. These are highly successful entertainers who may not be A-list international celebrities, movie stars or recording artists, but are giants in their respective specialized fields or cities/ countries.One thing many of these entertainers have in common is the strategy and approach to their business and careers. They all understand that show business is not just about the show but also about the business.This book is filled with incredible stories, practical advice, time-tested tips and market-proven action-steps on how to build a successful career as a performing artist and live entertainer.Learn how to:* Be a Successful Creative Entrepreneur* Build Your Brand* Dominate Your Niche Market* Harness the Power of Positioning* Price & Negotiate Big Money Shows* Find Your Big Break* Grow Your Business* Get Paid Without Performing* Invest for Your Future* Handle Career Challenges and FailureAs a bonus, learn three instant money tips to increase your income immediately without performing more shows.This book was written to benefit all types of entertainers such as:* Aerialists* Balloon Artistes* Bands* Circus Acts* Comedians* Contortionists* Dancers* Escape Artists* Face Painters* Hypnotists* Illusionists* Impersonators* Instrumentalists* Jugglers* Magicians* Mime Artists* Musicians* Singers* Variety Artists* Ventriloquists* Vocalists
Download or read book Graphic Showbiz written by Lee Accorley and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ULTIMATE KABUKI DROP RESOURCE written by J. C. Sum and published by Concept: Magic. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Ultimate Kabuki Drop Resource" is a must-have for any theatre or stage practitioner looking to add a strong piece of stagecraft to their shows or performances. This book is the definitive reference on the Kabuki Drop. A Kabuki Drop is a stagecraft technique and a release system that drops an open suspended curtain to the floor for a dramatic reveal. Whether you are a director, producer, production manager, dancer, magician, musician, variety artiste, burlesque performer or any other theatrical stage practitioner, a Kabuki drop can be used to add a dramatic wow-moment to your show or act. This book is a comprehensive compilation resource that explores the history, techniques, components, workings and systems of Kabuki Drops. It includes original drawings, ideas and research. Contents include: History of Kabuki Theatre Kabuki Stagecraft & Curtain Drop Evolution of the Kabuki Drop Basic Components of the Kabuki Drop Manual Kabuki Drop Systems Electronic Kabuki Drop Systems: Linear Solenoid Kabuki Drops & Electromagnetic Lock Kabuki Drops Double Kabuki Drop System Build, Buy or Rent Kabuki Drops Glossary References Also detailed is a collection of six designs for simple manual curtain drop methods & designs that can be adapted to any theatrical performance or special event. The systems explained include the "World's Easiest" Drop, "The Peel" Drop, "The Pull" Drop, "Pin & Loop" Drop, "Pull Back" Drop and "Roll & Drop" Drop. Each Kabuki Drop system includes measurements as well as detailed step-by-step instructions on what you need to get and how to put it together. Even if you do not have a production or technical background, you will be able to understand how to go about making each system through clear descriptions and drawings. All designs can be made easily without a professional workshop or machining although you will need to cut, drill, saw and sew items that are readily available at good hardware stores. The systems are perfect to install in small to medium theatres and options are also given on how to break them down for easy transport and touring shows. For more info, visit http: //MagicKabukiDrop.com"
Download or read book Graphic Showbiz written by Nanabanyin Dadson and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Development Challenges Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities written by R.B. Singh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population in 2009 was approximately 3.4 billion and Asia’s urban population was about 1.72 billion. Between 2010 and 2020, 411 million people will be added to Asian cities (60 % of the growth in the world’s urban population). By 2020, of the world’s urban population of 4.2 billion, approximately 2.2 billion will be in Asia. China and India will contribute 31.3 % of the total world urban population by 2025. Developing Asia’s projected global share of CO2 emissions for energy consumption will increase from 30 % in 2006 to 43 % by 2030. City regions serve as magnets for people, enterprise, and culture, but with urbanisation , the worst form of visible poverty becomes prominent. The Asian region, with a slum population of an estimated 505.5 million people, remains host to over half of the world’s slum population . The book provides information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced by the inhabitants of megacities. It also offers a wide and multidisciplinary group of case studies from rapidly growing megacities (with populations of more than 5 million) from developed and developing countries of Asia.
Download or read book Granta 164 Last Notes written by Sigrid Rausing and published by Granta. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Wiam El-Tamami, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing), Diana Evans, Tabitha Lasley, Adam Mars-Jones, Maartje Scheltens, Anjan Sundaram, Y-Dang Troeung, Ed Vulliamy and Ada Wordsworth. Fiction by Nicola Barker, Mazen Maarouf (tr. Mazen Maarouf with Laura Susijn), Adle Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) and Brywan Washington poetry by Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Martha Sprackland. Photography by Suzie Howell (introduced by A.K. Blakemore), James Berrington and Sama Beydoun. Cover artwork by Etel Adnan.
Download or read book Graphic Showbiz written by Adwoa Serwaa Bonsu and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Fix is in written by Brian Tuohy and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factual accounts expose how professional sports manipulate the outcomes of games for TV ratings and profits.
Download or read book Shobhaa Never a Dull D written by Shobhaa Dé and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shobhaa Dé shares her passionate concerns... Women. Men. Women and Men. It’s all about The Sexes and how to negotiate the new equations society demands in a rapidly changing, super charged gender confrontation that is throwing up fresh challenges nobody has any real answers to…. but which involve us all. Shobhaa Dé presents a thought provoking anthology of her feminist writings. This volume is bound to engage, provoke, enthrall, and stimulate the minds of readers with the range of subjects that she tackles. No topic is too bold. Nothing is taboo. Shobhaa bravely goes into sensitive terrain, raising important questions about our emotional complexities when it comes to issues that concern sexual politics in today’s India. Dé covers it all, as she dexterously gets into the minds of contemporary Indians, and candidly exposes familiar hypocrisies and hang ups. From tricky marital issues that most are scared to admit to our moral double standards while judging movie stars, politicians, Godmen and assorted celebrities, Dé is convinced that behind a veil of empowerment urban women don’t have it easy at all. Unabashedly she debunks the use of nauseatingly old-fashioned terms like ‘keep’ by an erudite judge, which in turn elicits a quick reaction from legal luminaries. Shobhaa: Never a Dull Dé provides tantalizing insights into the hidden lives of superstars to shocking incidents in small-town India that rarely find a spot on the front-page; poignant stories about women who silently suffer sexual violations; to the fascinating lives of women politicos who have made it big . Her writing is richly layered and insightful making it hard-hitting and socially relevant. As an important social commentator and opinion shaper, this is De at her sharpest best, fearlessly taking on prejudice and humbug, injustice and oppression, without once losing her humanity. Shobhaa Dé’s rightful sobriquet: the Empress of the Hearts and Minds of the reading masses comes to life in Shobhaa: Never a Dull Dé!
Download or read book Live At the Brixton Academy written by JS Rafaeli and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid 1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. And now he's telling his story: full of fond - and wild - reminiscences of the famous musicians who played at the venue, including Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Lou Reed, The Ramones, New Order, the Beastie Boys and The Smiths. This is about one man's burning desire for success against the odds, his passion for live music and the excitement of those wilderness years, a far cry from the corporate world that controls the scene today. From rock-star debauchery and mixing it up with Brixton gangsters to putting on the first legal raves in the UK and countless backroom business deals, this is the story of how to succeed in business with no experience and fulfil your teenage fantasies.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1950-12-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Inside Comedy written by David Steinberg and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Steinberg's name has been synonymous with comedy for decades. The Canadian-born comedian, producer, writer, director, and author has been called "a comic institution himself" by the New York Times. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 140 times (second only to Bob Hope), and directed episodes of popular television sitcoms, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, The Golden Girls, and Designing Women. From 2012–2015, Steinberg hosted the comedy documentary series Inside Comedy, which featured such comedy greats as Billy Crystal, Chris Rock, and Gary Shandling. In this entertaining history of comedy, Steinberg shares insightful memories of his journey through his career and takes the reader behind the curtain of the comedy scene of the last half-century. Steinberg shares amusing and often hilarious stories and anecdotes from some of the most legendary comedians in the industry—from Groucho Marx, Carol Burnett, Mel Brooks, and Richard Pryor to Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Tina Fey. Inside Comedy presents in-depth portraits of some of the most talented and revered comedians in the world of comedy today.
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Download or read book McMafia written by Misha Glenny and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs, weapons, migrant labour, women — these are just a few of the many goods that effortlessly cross national borders in this globalized age, often without the knowledge or permission of the nations concerned. How is this remarkable criminal feat managed?From gun runners in the Ukraine, to money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan, and the booming marijuana industry in western Canada, McMafia builds a breathtaking picture of a secret and bloody business.Internationally celebrated writer Misha Glenny crafts a fascinating, highly readable, and impressively well-researched account of the emergence of organized crime as a globalized phenomenon and shows how its secret and bloody business mirrors both the methods and the rewards of the legitimate world economy. Employing his journalistic talent and his prior experience covering organized crime in Eastern Europe, Glenny reports on his travels around the planet to investigate this worrying and worsening situation. After comprehensively surveying the criminal scene, Glenny ends by considering the future of organized crime. McMafia is an important book that assembles all the pieces of this worldwide puzzle for the first time.
Download or read book Blondie s Parallel Lines written by Kembrew McLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be heard in its electronic dance music hit “Heart of Glass.” Bubblegum music maven Mike Chapman produced Parallel Lines, which was the first massive hit by a group from the CBGB punk underworld. By embracing the diversity of New York City's varied music scenes, Blondie embodied many of the tensions that played out at the time between fans of disco, punk, pop and mainstream rock. Debbie Harry's campy glamor and sassy snarl shook up the rock'n'roll boy's club during a growing backlash against the women's and gay liberation movements, which helped fuel the “disco sucks” battle cry in the late 1970s. Despite disco's roots in a queer, black and Latino underground scene that began in downtown New York, punk is usually celebrated by critics and scholars as the quintessential subculture. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that dismissed disco as fluffy prefab schlock while also recuperating punk's unhip pop influences, revealing how these two genres were more closely connected than most people assume. Even Blondie's album title, Parallel Lines, evokes the parallel development of punk and disco-along with their eventual crossover into the mainstream.
